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Are Blacks Losing Their Place?

Are Blacks Losing Their Place?

I've heard that so many Hispanics are coming into the USA that many feel the Blacks are losing their status and position as the strongest minority. What do you think?

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I don't know that its losing a status as a stronger minority. I think its more that with the hispanics moving in more, most of them illegal aliens, we are finding that we are beginning to solidify more as american citizens, creating less of a "minority" feeling of US citizens in the country. We have a long way to go, but I think that the minority should indeed be those not US citizens, not groups within the US citizen group. We should look at anyone born here as an american, not an american of a certain color or race.

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I agree konquererz, and on a global scale, not just for the US.

In terms of blacks and hispanics in the US though, I think this is a clear case of, "those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it".

Each wave of immigration to the US historically, brought the previous group(s) looking on the newcomer as an irritation.... this wasn't even a racial bias, because the Irish and the Italians faced exactly the same stigma when they first arrived. Blacks arrived as slaves so were always looked down on as the bottom of the barrel, it is only in recent times historically speaking, that some of them have been able to rise to positions of power in American sociiety.

Hispanics are currently the "new kids on the block", so they're simply facing the same problems that every group of US immigrants has ever faced. Consider this: weren't the Irish and the Italians and even the Asians, accused of forming gangs to protect themselves when they first arrived (and in the case of the Asians, to this very day)?

This, along with the current stigma attached to being a US black or hispanic, is simply American history repeating itself, in the ugliest way.